Next time you read that such and such a percentage of the Great Barrier Reef has already been destroyed by humankind, laugh out loud! I say that not to offend, and not because I don’t care about the corals, but because it is better to laugh than to be drawn into their madness.

According to a completely mad research paper published by John Pandolfi and ten other reef researchers – each a high-profile marine biologist including Terry Hughes from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Research – the Great Barrier Reef was pristine before the arrival of humans. According to Pandolfi et al. published in the prestigious journal Science in 2003 (entitled ‘Global Trajectories of the Long-Term Decline of Coral Reef Ecosystems’) a rather large 25 percent of the inner Great Barrier Reef was destroyed with the arrival of Australian aborigines.

Except that when the Aborigines arrived much of the region known today as the Great Barrier Reef was open Eucalyptus woodland.

There was no Great Barrier Reef!

Back then, the Pacific Ocean began at the edge of Australia’s continental shelf that is now 100 to 200 kilometres offshore.

Sea levels began to rise some 18,000 years ago, after the arrival of the Aborigines. In fact, 100 percent of the Great Barrier Reef was formed after the arrival of humankind.

The first Australians predate the Great Barrier Reef by some 40,000 years. The first Australian walked across from New Guinea during the depth of the last ice age when there was no Great Barrier Reef. In fact, sea levels were about 120 metres lower than they are today.

It is only in the last 10,000 years, since the beginning of this geological epoch known as the Holocene, that the Great Barrier Reef has formed. It formed after sea levels rose by more than 120 metres during a period from 18,000 to 10,000 years ago when the coastline was being eroded by up to 50 metres each year.

On the subject of laughing: next time one of those expert professors in the ilk of Pandolfi or Hughes tell you to be fearful of 36 centimetres of sea level rise, remember that since the arrival of humankind in Australia some 40,000 years ago, sea levels have risen not by some few centimetres, but by around 120 metres! Oh, and all of that was before the industrial revolution that was just a couple of hundred years ago.

If there is one thing that these experts lack, especially the professors running Great Barrier Reef research, it is perspective. While they lack perspective it is the case that they are successfully drawing much of our civilization into their madness.

https://jennifermarohasy.com/2021/09/the-madness-of-john-pandolfi-and-michelle-g...

paper here - https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1085706

or
https://nsgl.gso.uri.edu/cuimr/cuimrr03018.pdf

Coral reef luminaries such as Terry Hughes among the authors.

What I don't understand is that if you take the story
of warmer waters killing coral as gospel truth then
why doesn't the coral reef move further South each year?

Surely the waters further South would then be
at a temperature that corals like?
The coral reef should move North or South depending
on temperature over 100s and 1000s of years.

So you didn't read or understand the underlying paper?

I even added their graph.

Note how the GBR starts out as pristine and then before human arrival it loses 25%?

" 20,000 years ago, the world was starting to emerge from the most recent ice age. The sea level around the Australian coast was then about 120 meters lower than it is today.

The coastal mountain ranges we see today in north-eastern Australia were further inland. A coastal plain, dotted with hills, separated these mountains from the sea."

https://www.aims.gov.au/docs/projectnet/how-the-gbr-twenty-thousand.html

AIMS - the Australian Institute of Marine Science,

So when did the Aboriginals come to Australia?

Well according to wiki - "Aboriginal Australians comprise many distinct peoples who have developed across Australia for over 50,000 years."

So tell us how Aboriginal Australians both arrived before AND after the GBR.

Perhaps you should look at the message not the messenger.